My only technique is the dodge/burn tool in Lightroom. Sometimes it helps. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:06 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I did try, but it resisted my best efforts, (and those of my various raw > converters, I keep thinking that I should give RawTherapee another try), > sometimes you just have to go with the flow. > > On 5/6/2015 10:39 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> PJ, >> Have you tried lightening up the bird a little bit. >> I think the K-5II will have a bit more detail for you. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:59 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yesterday was a miserable day, the weather was just perfect, I took the >>> day >>> off, and went to Motor Vehicles, and spent 5 hours waiting, 20 minutes to >>> get a number and the rest for a clerk to take care of a 5 minute >>> transaction... Well I didn't spend all that time there, I did take a >>> hour >>> in the middle to go get lunch, but if I missed my number I'd have to >>> start >>> all over again... >>> >>> Afterward I stopped at the Hammonasset State Park, to try to catch some >>> Harbor Seals, there were rumors of them but no seals, (they spend a >>> couple >>> of weeks, more or less, here then disappear to wherever they spend the >>> summer, and repeat in the fall going to their winter quarters). >>> >>> So I made due with other wild life. The previous Redwing Blackbird shot >>> and >>> Cormorant on the rock were taken there, as was this, Blue Heron, back lit >>> and almost silhouetted. I thought of rendering it as black and white, >>> but >>> really what would be the point. >>> >>> >>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20---%20%20bluenoreally.html >>> >>> I'm processing a few of the better shots and then winnowing them down to >>> what I consider the best, either due to content, composition, or what I >>> laughingly call technical quality. So maybe coming soon a GESO of my >>> usual >>> tripe. >>> >>> Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0 w/smc F 1.7x AF >>> adapter. >>> >>> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >>> >>> -- >>> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >>> immortality through not dying. >>> -- Woody Allen >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
